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From their humble beginnings at a 1960 craft fair where all 25 mice sold for $1 each, to today's 3,000-mice-a-year output, the Cathedral Mice of St. Paul's are a phenomenon and an engaging tale. Ruth Du Frane will tell their story at two programs on Thursday, November 19: at 2 pm and repeated at 6 pm at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The programs are free. No registration required.
Kids ages 3 to 5 and their adult friends are invited to Stories on Ice – a program of stories and skating – at 10 a.m. and repeated at 5 p.m. Thursdays November 5, 12 and 19 at Blue Line Family Ice Center, 550 Fond du Lac Ave. The program is free, no registration required.
Kids ages 6 to 12 who attend school in Fond du Lac School District get a bonus: early release on the first Fridays of the month. The Fond du Lac Public Library is offering Half Day Parties from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. featuring a kid-friendly movie, snacks and games of bingo in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. The program, in the McLane Meeting Room in the Main Library's lower level, is free. No registration required.
Kids ages 2 to 6 and their parents are invited to I Got Rhythm at 10 a.m. Saturday, November 14, at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Kids will explore songs, dancing and fun musical instruments, as well as books and stories. The program is free. No registration required.
You can wait in line, throw elbows and scramble for deals at the superstore. Or you can spend Black Friday in the pleasant confines of the Fond du Lac Public Library and get a great deal. On Friday, November 27, the downtown Main Library will offer half off overdue fines, 9 a.m. to noon. No restrictions. Pay half your fees – overdue, lost, damaged, etc.
Using scrapbook paper, a Styrofoam ball and a few festive embellishments, crafters will make a unique and beautiful holiday ornament at the November 21 Crafternoon class at the Fond du Lac Public Library.
No, this is not some scary Halloween story. The unusual title Washing the Dead refers to a sacred Jewish ritual, and in this novel the ritual helps to strengthen the bond between mothers and daughters. Set in Milwaukee and alternating between the 1970s and 2009, main character Barbara is a teen in 1973 who is being raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. Their shul (church) is in an old mansion that was donated anonymously and also provides the living quarters for the rabbi's family.
UPDATE: Due to the inclement weather on Halloween, the flash mob is rescheduled for Saturday, Nov 7. Meet with choreographer Julie Wilson at her studio, Shut Up and Dance, 17 Forest Ave., at 11 am. Flash mob downtown at 11:30, then mob the library at noon.
Flash mobbers should come dressed in their zombie worst and made up to look their undead-iest.
Inspired by the classic creepiness of Dracula, which is the selection for Fond du Lac Reads this year, area artists have tapped into their dark sides for the exhibit, "All Hallows Eve" at the Fond du Lac Public Library Langdon Divers Gallery from October 7 through November 4. The show includes a variety of works in myriad media.
For Angie Morse, what begins as a beautiful evening off the Turkish coast at a party on a large luxury yacht ends with attempted murder and a quest for revenge. Standing on the yacht's deck enjoying the sunset, someone hits her over the head with a champagne bottle and pushes her over the side. The yacht pulls away and those on deck appear to turn their backs on her. How can that be? These are her friends, and one is her love, or so she thought. At that moment, Angie vows to survive and get even with those who did this to her - one way or another.


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Eric "E. Smitty" Finnerud is a producer and engineer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He's been a proud Focusrite user for 15 years, over which time he has produced, mixed, mastered, and consulted with both independent and gold/platinum achieving artists, as well as worked on his own music.
Two Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 interfaces are part of his arsenal of audio equipment, which also includes a large-format analogue mixing console and various other outboard pieces, including a Focusrite ISA One. His PRO 40s act as a bridge between his analogue front end and his DAW, and they also give him the multiple outputs required to perform multichannel mixes on his console.
"You're covered with Focusrite"
Finnerud uses his Focusrite preamps to mold and shape the sound of his recordings. "I have a couple of different preamps that I love; my number one favorite being the ISA One. In the chain of equipment, the ISA One always comes first. It's great for vocals, electric guitar, bass; literally anything I need it for. Focusrite is the beginning and end of my signal chain."
It's not just the sound quality that E. Smitty likes, however. "The durability of the build is magnificent. I compared similar interfaces from different brands and found the Focusrite interfaces to be stronger and harder with heavy-duty, solid construction. Focusrite products are just superior to other brands. The products are constructed from better materials, the gear has more options, and the sound is crisp, clear and un-tampered with. Hopefully the gear you own doesn't have to take a beating, but if it does, you're covered with Focusrite.
"Most recently I produced a record for my partner Lil Dap called 'Pray For Me' which I used the ISA One as well as some VST synths and live drums. The results were heavy! As you know, in hip-hop, there is a need for a precise sound, which I was easily able get with the Focusrite preamps."
For more information on E. Smitty, and his Sound Alive studios, check out the following web links:

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BRITTANY: Hi, Buster!
BUSTER: Hi Brittany! It's been such a long time!
BRITTANY: It's nice to see you again!
BUSTER: Remember my dad?
BRITTANY: Hi, Mr. Baxter.
BO: Hi, Brittany.
BRITTANY: Come on in, Buster. This is my sister, Nichole.
BUSTER: Hi!
NICHOLE: Hello.
BRITTANY: My brother, Reginald.
REGINALD: How do you do?
BRITTANY: My sister, Jennifer.
JENNIFER: Hi, Buster.
BRITTANY: And my brother, Peter.
PETER: Hi!
BUSTER: It's good that everybody's here together. But is it kind of strange to be in Atlanta and not New Orleans?
BRITTANY: Yes, it is. I really miss home.
BUSTER: What happened to your house?
BRITTANY: This is how our backyard used to look. We had a nice pool in the backyard. And these are pictures of our backyard now.
BUSTER: Did the water get inside the house, too?
BRITTANY: This was, like, our den area here. And we had just finished buying all our furniture for our house. We had new sofas, new tables. And these are the "after" pictures. This is the dining room where we ate dinner at.
BUSTER: Oh, no!
BRITTANY: And this is our living area.
BUSTER: The water did all that?
BO: That's terrible!
BRITTANY: I was really shocked. I couldn't believe it. It was just like… it really took me by surprise that water can do so much damage.
BUSTER: Were you home when it all happened?
BRITTANY: Oh, no. We left before the storm came in. So that was good.
BUSTER: Yeah! Where did you go?
BRITTANY: We went to Galveston, Texas. And we stayed in a hotel there and we watched the news every day to hear what was going on.
BUSTER: I watched it all on TV, too. It must have been really scary.
BRITTANY: I was thinking about what would happen to my house. What about my friends? What about my church, my church family? My grandparents, my aunts, my cousins? All that was running through my mind during this time.
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|Rams | STL makes final cuts
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:02:54 -0700
The St. Louis Rams released WR Emory Blake, OG Travis Bond, DE Kourtnei Brown, FS C.B. Bryant, DT Matt Conrath, WR Austin Franklin, QB Garrett Gilbert, DT Deantre Harlan, LB Aaron Hill, OT Sean Hooey, CB Greg Reid, LB Etienne Sabino, TE Brad Smelley, LB Phillip Steward, WR Justin Veltung, OG Brandon Washington, LB Lawrence J. Wilson, and CB Darren Woodard.
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|Bears | 11 signed to futures contracts
Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:23:19 -0800
The Chicago Bears have signed LS Brandon Hartson, CB Demontre Hurst, CB C.J. Wilson, TE Fendi Onobun, QB Jerrod Johnson, LB Lawrence J. Wilson, OT Rogers Gaines, SS Sean Cattouse, WR Terrence Toliver, DT Tracy Robertson and TE Zachary Miller to futures contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Bears | Lawrence Wilson signs
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:26:05 -0800
The Chicago Bears signed free-agent LB Lawrence J. Wilson (Saints) to their practice squad Tuesday, Nov. 19, and released LS Jeremy Cain in a corresponding move.
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|Saints | Make roster moves to get to 53 players
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:46:08 -0700
The New Orleans Saints released WR Greg Camarillo, TE Derek Schouman, LB Kadarron Anderson, DE Braylon Broughton, LB Ezra Butler, QB Sean Canfield, DE Alex Daniels, TE Michael Higgins, CB Nick Hixson, SS Jerico Nelson, OG DeOnt'ae Pannell, OT Aderious Simmons, WR Andy Tanner, OG Matt Tennant and LB Lawrence J. Wilson. The team also placed RB Joe Banyard (undisclosed), SS Jose Gumbs (undisclosed) and CB Marquis Johnson (undisclosed) on Injured Reserve.
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|Saints | Lawrence Wilson suspended one game
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:35:24 -0700
New Orleans Saints LB Lawrence J. Wilson has been suspended one game by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Wilson was also fined one additional game check.
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|Titans | Two signed, two released
Tue, 01 May 2012 15:51:46 -0700
The Tennessee Titans signed free-agent LB Zac Diles (Buccaneers) and undrafted free-agent FB Collin Mooney (Army) to undisclosed deals Tuesday, May 1. FB Will Ta'ufo'ou and LB Lawrence J. Wilson were released in corresponding moves.
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|Titans | Two signed to future contracts
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:22:18 -0800
The Tennessee Titans have signed FB Will Ta'ufo'ou and LB Lawrence J. Wilson to future contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|Panthers | Cut roster down to 53 players
Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:57:32 -0700
The Carolina Panthers released WR Wallace Wright Saturday, Sept. 3, and waived FB Tony Fiammetta, SS Michael Greco, CB Chevis Jackson, WR Charly Martin, CB Robert McClain, RB Josh Vaughan and LB Lawrence J. Wilson.
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|Panthers | Hopeful LB Wilson can be equally productive in pros
Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:54:59 -0700
The Carolina Panthers nabbed LB Lawrence J. Wilson out of Connecticut in the sixth round. He started 51 games at UConn, posting 100-plus tackles in three seasons. Wilson said he will volunteer to do whatever he can just to get on the football field. He also added that weak-side linebacker is his strength due to his athletic ability and speed.
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|Jaguars | Lawrence Wilson to work out
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:09:24 -0700
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Post holiday spree
With all Christmas items marked down 50 percent at Wal-Mart, many shoppers were out hunting for deals.
Carts were filled with wrapping paper, ornaments, Christmas cards, candy and gift sets, all of which were marked down or on the clearance shelves.
Terry Stahler of Wapakoneta said she typically does some shopping after Christmas because she has a large family and everyone has places to be on Christmas day. She also likes the Christmas items on sale.
"Christmasy stuff that's clearance, gift sets and stuff like that, that's a good deal," Stahler said.
Jennifer Shonk of Wapakoneta agrees and said she always shops after Christmas for sales.
"I look for Christmas ornaments, decorations, if I kind find good bath sets and things like that that's what I purchase," Shonk said.
Shonk likes to purchase the bath sets on sale for her family to use throughout the year.
Colleen Winner of the Jackson Center area usually shops after Christmas as well.
"I mainly shop for wrapping paper and that I can use next year," Winner said.
Winner said she saves whatever she gets for the next year, and just enjoys good deals.
Stahler said regular items like toys are usually set at their regular prices.
"Generally speaking, I think retailers keep their prices regular after Christmas because they think people have gift cards, and they're going to spend their gift cards," Stahler said. "So they don't have good sales, the good sales are before Christmas."
Shonk said she really likes how Wal-Mart puts everything together.
"They move everything together and it just makes it easier to find," Shonk said.
Stahler said post holiday sales seem to save a lot of money and she shops for holiday deals every year, no matter what holiday it is.
"I usually shop for any holiday sales, like after Halloween I shop the day after Halloween for candy and stuff like that," Stahler said. "You get more treats that you wouldn't normally spend the money on."


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Director-General meets Liberian Vice Minister for Agriculture
5 December 2013, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva held a meeting with the Vice Minister for Agriculture of the Republic of Liberia Charles McClain at FAO Headquarters today.
Graziano da Silva showed his support to the Minister and he also informed Minister McClain that Liberia is one of the countries for which resources are being mobilized to finance implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines.
The Minister said he needs FAO's support for coordination in the agriculture sector, particularly at the policy level. He also underlined that revitalizing the forum where heads of development partners in the agriculture sector and the Minister of Agriculture as well as civil society partners can meet, exchange ideas and discuss relevant issues to the sector could help.
Director-General offered FAO's support to develop a modern fisheries and aquacultures strategy to enable the reconstruction of the sector back to a pre-war production level.


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This article deals with the nuts-and-bolts of converting a conventional road or mountain bike into a fixed gear.
If you wonder why you might want to do such a thing, see my separate article:
There are four ways you can go, as far as hubs are concerned. You can use a track hub, a flip-flop hub, a freewheel hub, or a cassette hub.
The best set-up for a road fixed-gear is to build up a new rear wheel, using either a track hub or a flip-flop hub.
Track hubs have a stepped thread. The main thread that the sprocket screws onto is the same as that of a normal freewheel hub. Outboard of this, is another threaded section of slightly smaller diameter. This thread is a left (reverse) thread, and a special lock ring screws onto it. After you screw the sprocket on in the normal manner, and tighten it down securely, the lock ring screws down so that it presses against the outer surface of the sprocket. If the sprocket should start to loosen up, it will try to turn the lock ring counter clockwise...but that only tightens the lockring. As a result, the sprocket cannot be unscrewed by the chain, no matter how hard you fight the pedals.
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lip-flop, or double-sided hubs are threaded on both sides. Usually one side has a track-type threading, (with lockring) and the other side is threaded for a single-speed standard freewheel. It is possible to find them with track threading on both sides, but not easily.
The usual way to use a flip-flop hub is to have a fixed gear on one side, and a single speed freewheel on the other. Ideally, the freewheel sprocket would be one or two teeth larger than the fixed sprocket.
You would ride with the fixed gear most of the time (I hope!) and save the freewheel for longer rides, or for getting you home when you are tired. Having the freewheel a bit larger than the fixed sprocket gives you a lower gear when you are using the freewheel. This makes it easier to climb. Since you can coast when you are using the freewheel, the lower gear is no disadvantage on the descents.
Single-speed freewheels are commonly used on BMX bicycles, most shops that deal in BMX parts should stock them. The common size used for BMX is 16 tooth, other sizes may be hard to find, especially for 3/32 chain.
If you are going to use a flip-flop hub with a freewheel, you should have two brakes on the bicycle.
Note, there are two types of hubs called "flip-flop":
he cheapest way to convert a multi-speed bicycle into a fixed gear is to use the original rear hub, assuming that it is made for a conventional threaded freewheel. A fixed sprocket will thread right on, but there is no provision for a left threaded lock ring.
If you go this route, it is a good idea to use LocTite or a similar thread adhesive. You can use an old lock ring from a British-threaded bottom bracket as an additional safety measure, it is the same thread.
Although you can just screw on the sprocket and put everything together, the chain line will probably be incorrect. If you go this route, you will usually need to re-arrange spacers on the axle to correct the chain line, then re-dish the wheel so that everything will track correctly.
I should mention that there are those who say you shouldn't use a lockring. This theory is based on the fact that if the chain should come off the chainwheel and get caught, a sprocket without a lockring will just unscrew, rather than locking up the rear wheel.
My feeling is that it is better to use a lockring so that you can rely on being able to slow the bike down with your feet, especially if you ride with only one brake.If you don't use a proper track hub with a lockring, you really should have two hand brakes. If not, a front brake failure followed by a sudden extra effort at "resisting" could break the sprocket loose at the worst possible time, and you'd be toast!
The Quality part number is HU9020. Expect to pay $70-80, plus sprocket and lockring.
This device is mainly intended for use with disc wheels and the like. Although it works with most Shimano cassette Freehubs, it is expensive enough that it doesn't generally make sense unless you already have a very good wheel that you don't have any use for as a multispeed. Bruce Ingle, a fellow member of the Charles River Wheelmen used a Shimano cassette hub, which he immobilized by brazing the ratchet mechanism together.
I rode with a brazed-up cassette hub for quite a while, and it worked fine.
As a result, it is widely believed that quick-release axles are not suitable for fixed-gear use. This is false!
It is my belief that the velodrome rule dates back to long before the invention of the quick-release, when the choices were standard nuts or wing nuts. The protruding "wings" of wing nuts might constitute a hazard in a crash, and I believe that's why the rule was instituted. Since quick-release skewers don't have any sharp projections, that becomes a non-issue in practice.
If you are going to use a quick release with a fixed gear, you should make sure to use a good quality enclosed-cam skewer.
t is very desirable that a frame for fixed-gear use have "horizontal" rear dropouts: that is, the slots in the frame that hold the rear axle should run in a more-or-less horizontal direction. This allows you to move the axle back and forth as needed to adjust chain tension. This makes things much easier than if you try to convert a newer bike with vertical dropouts.
The most desirable bikes for fixed-gear conversion are 1970's road bikes. These usually have horizontal dropouts, and usually don't have unsightly shift-lever bosses. Frames of this era also tended to have more generous tire clearance than newer sport bikes, providing more versatility in the choice of tires, and the use of fenders.
If you replace the 590 mm (26 x 1 3/8") wheels with 622 (700C) wheels, the bottom bracket gets raised a useful amount, providing good ground clearance. Using the larger wheels also allows you to install a better, shorter-reach brake caliper.
One of my favorite bikes is my 1916 Mead Ranger. This was originally built as a coaster brake bike with 28 inch single-tube tires on wood rims. It was wheelless when I bought it at a flea market, so I set it up with some nice quality '70s vintage 630 mm (27") wheels and modern tires. It's surprisingly pleasant to ride.
I have an old Bridgestone CB-3 set up for nasty winter conditions, with a 28/15. This gives a nice low gear, a 3.63 gain ratio (49" / 3.88 m) which will take me as fast as I care to go when the streets are snowy. A fixed gear this low makes the brake almost unnecessary: such a low gear lets me slow the bike down quickly by resisting, especially considering that it can't go very fast.
I have set up a couple of mountain bikes with flip-flop hubs, so that I get a fixed gear on one side and two different freewheel gears on the other. This is done with a double chainwheel and a two-speed freewheel. (The freewheel is actually an old 5- or 6-speed freewheel with 3 of the sprockets replaced by spacers.
In front, I have a 42/52 double, which I use with a 19 tooth fixed and a 20/30 freewheel. This gives 3 usable combinations:
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|Road...when I'm tired, or hilly areas.
Bruce Ingle, a fellow member of the Charles River Wheelmen, has gone me one better, and made a triple-fixed mountain bike. He used a Shimano cassette hub, which he immobilized by brazing the ratchet mechanism together. I am a bit nervous as to the long-term prospects for this hub, in particular the connection between the freehub body and the hub shell, but I think I will have to copy his setup. He's got:
ost newer bikes (made since the late-1980's) have "vertical" rear dropouts, where the wheel slides upward as you install it. These are a problem when you want to dispense with a derailer, because you need some way to regulate chain tension.
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You cannot use a derailer on a fixed gear bike, even as a chain tensioner, because when you resist the rotation of the pedals, you would bend the derailer. This presents a problem if you want to use a frame with vertical dropouts as a fixed gear, because there's no easy way to adjust the chain tension. This is also true of chain tensioners sold for singlespeed coasting bikes, such as the Surly Singleator.
Even the chain tensioners used for downhill mountain bike racing are not strong enough to withstand the stress of resisting the pedals. These tensioners have to clamp on to the chain stay, which is more or less round. There is no way to make one that would be secure, short of installing some sort of brazed-on fitting.
Fortunately, most "vertical" dropouts are not exactly vertical: they usually have a bit of a slant to them. You may have to play games with chainwheel sizes. One of my fixed-gear bicycles is based on a Cannondale touring frame. It happens that there is just enough adjustment to make it work with my preferred 42/15 combination. If the chainstays were a bit different in length, I could replace the 42 with a 41 or 43.
Adding or subtracting a link in the chain will move the axle 1/2". Changing either sprocket size by one tooth will move the axle 1/8" (4 mm). Thus, if I wanted a 5.75 gain ratio (75" / 6 meter gear), I might first try a 42/15, this gives a gain ratio of 5.77 (75.6" / 6.05 m gear). If the chain was too loose, I could take up 1/8" (4 mm) of axle movement by replacing the 42 with a 43. This 43/15 combination would raise my gain ratio to 5.91 (77.4" / 6.19 m). Alternately, I could get the same axle position with a 42/16 --5.41 (70.9" / 5.67 m).
If I was not happy with these choices, I could add a link to the chain and switch to a 45/17 --5.45 (71.5" / 5.72 m) If I added two links to the chain, I could get the same axle position with a 48/18 --5.49 (72.0" / 5.76 m)
It is also possible to use a special "half link" or "offset link" to lengthen or shorten your chain by only 1/2".
Another possibility would be to do a little bit of filing at the back of the dropout to let the axle move back just a bit.
It is also possible to grind or file a flat on each end of the axle to allow a bit more adjustment, like this:
I used a more drastic solution: on my Bianchi Osprey. I cut the rear axle short so that it didn't protrude past the surfaces of the locknuts. Thus, only the quick-release skewer went through the dropouts. Since the skewer is quite a bit thinner than the actual axle, this gives me considerably more adjustment room.
If the skewer is properly tightened, the axle is held in place by the friction of the locknuts being pressed against the inside of the dropouts. If this were not the case, horizontal dropouts would not be usable, since the forward pull on the chain creates a larger force against the axle than supporting the rider's weight does. Just to be on the safe side, I carried a spare skewer along with my spare tube.
I rode that setup for a couple of years with no problems, but later got a deal on a Bianchi B.a.S.S. purpose-built singlespeed frame that fits me better, is notably lighter and has horizontal track-type fork ends, so I'm no longer using that setup.
Quite a fine adjustment is possible positioning a "ghost chainwheel", as shown on our home-built tandem pag. It does reduce drive efficiency slightly. The closer it is to the rear hub, the more slack it takes up, the smaller the risk of its falling out, and the less likely it will rub on the chainstay.
Eric House has prepared a whole web site devoted to the problem of finding sprocket combinations that will work with vertical dropouts. He has developed charts and Java applets that show the options available for particular chainstay lengths.
Frames built originally to be used with 5-speed freewheels usually have 120 mm spacing between the rear dropouts. Fixed gear hubs are commonly available in this spacing, although they are more commonly found in the narrower, 110 mm spacing which is standard for track hubs. If you are using a newer frame, with wider spacing, you may want to replace the axle. You may want to replace the axle in any case, because fixed gear hubs generally come only with solid axles, not quick release.
any track bicycles use a wider chain than is common on multi-speed bicycles. Derailer-type chain has a nominal internal width of 3/32". Single-speed bicycles, including most track bicycles, use the wider 1/8" size. You can buy fixed-gear sprockets in both widths.
(Some people mistakenly refer to the width as "pitch", speaking of "road pitch" or "track pitch". This is a malapropism. The pitch is the distance between the rollers, and all modern bicycle chain has the same pitch, 1/2"/12.7 mm.)
I generally prefer using the 3/32" (derailer) size. The 1/8" size is slightly heavier, but doesn't seem to perform any better in my experience.
For the true retro fan, another option is 1" x 3/16" chain. This used to be common on track bikes. This requires special sprockets with only half as many teeth as standard 1/2" pitch sprockets. Serious old-time trackies used "block" chain, which had no rollers. This is no longer available. Roller chain is still sometimes findable in this size.
Even more obscure is the 10 mm pitch chain promoted by Shimano in the early 1980s. The idea was to save weight by making everything littler. An idea whose time never came.
erailer bikes can work fairly well even with the chain running at a considerable angle, but this should not be done with a fixed-gear setup. It is quite important to get the chain line just right.
I usually check the chainline by installing the hub in the bike, with no chain installed. By placing my head just in front of the chain wheel, I can sight along the chainwheel and see back to the rear hub, to see if the chainwheel lines up exactly with the rear sprocket. If it doesn't, I re-arrange spacers or change the bottom bracket axle as necessary. You might also hold a yardstick or other straightendge against the side of the chainwhee, reaching back to the sprockets.
Usually, on a bike that came with double chainwheels, the inner chainwheel will be more in line with the rear sprocket. If you wish to make the bike a pure fixed gear, you can buy a set of shorter "stack bolts" (the 5 bolts that hold the chainwheel(s) to the crank spider). You may find it easier to locate these in a shop that deals in BMX bikes.
There is more detailed information on chainline in my Bicycle Glossary's Chainline Entry and even more in my Chainline Article.
Set the rear axle so that the chain pulls taut at the tightest part of the cranks' rotation. One at a time, loosen up each of the stack bolts, and tighten it back just finger tight. Spin the crank slowly and watch for the chain to get to its tightest point. Strike the taut chain lightly with a convenient tool to make the chain ring move a bit on its spider. Then rotate the crank some more, finding the new tightest spot, and repeat as necessary.
This takes a little bit of your hands learning how hard to hit the chain, and how loose to set the stack bolts, but it is really quite easy to learn.
Tighten up the stack bolts a bit and re-check. Tighten the stack bolts in a regular pattern, like the lug nuts on a car wheel. My standard pattern is to start by tightening the bolt opposite the crank, then move clockwise 2 bolts (144 degrees), tighten that one, clockwise 2 more, and so on. Never tighten two neighboring bolts in a row. You may prefer to go counterclockwise, but try to get in the habit of always starting at the same place and always going the same way. This reduces the chances of accidentally missing a bolt.
Once you have the chainrings centered and secured, adjust the position of the rear axle to make the chain as nearly tight as possible without binding. Notice how freely the drive train turns when the chain is too loose. That is how freely it should turn when you are done, but with as little chain droop as possible.
You need to pay more attention to chain wear on a fixed-gear bicycle than on others, because the consequences can be more serious if the chain falls off. If the chain is badly worn, adjusting it just short of binding will result in rough running and low efficiency, because the chain will not engage the teeth of the sprocket evenly. Check the chain for wear, readjust the position of the rear hub and replace the chain as needed.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Teaching English in Mexico without a Bachelor's ??? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Teaching English in Mexico without a Bachelor's ??? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Mexico View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message gqsmoothieJoined: 17 Mar 2003Posts: 15Location: Lafayette Indiana Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 5:15 am Post subject: Teaching English in Mexico without a Bachelor's ??? I am very interested in going to Mexico in the fall and attempting to find a school to teach in for 6 months. I am going to be completing an online ESL course, I also have 43 college credit hours in no particular area. I would be getting an FM3. What I am wondering is if it is very difficult to land a job in Mexico without a BA? Thanks! Back to top The Old GringoJoined: 15 Feb 2003Posts: 13 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject: There are schools that will hire you without a BA and there are others that won't. Apparently some Migracion offices require a BA and others don't. Generally speaking, schools that require a BA pay better than those who don't. Of course there are exceptions. This is Mexico. There is at least one chain of schools in Mexico, Harmon Hall, that will hire you with no BA and put you through there own month-long, unpaid training program. They are located all over Mexico. That is something you might seriously consider, or at least attend a school that prepares you (somewhat) for a class room. I haven't taken an online course so I don't know, but realistically, how well could it prepare you for the realities of the classroom? It's one thing to know your grammar inside and out. It's quite another to be able to teach it to someone else who doesnt speak your language. Classroom experience is crucial. Back to top Guy CourchesneJoined: 10 Mar 2003Posts: 9646Location: Guadalajara Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject: Mexico on an online cert Allow me to interject... You won't have any trouble finding a job without a BA...like the Old Gringo notes, some immigration office need it, others don't. As well, some schools need it, others don't. Don't even bother with Harmon Hall. You can't live on what they pay. My bigger concern for you is your online cert. With that, your options may well be limited to Harmon Hall. Without a practical teaching component, or experience in front of students, you will likely not find a position in Mexico that pays more than 4 usd per hour. Guy Back to top Ben Round de BlocJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1946 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:11 pm Post subject: Harmon Hall wages Quote: Don't even bother with Harmon Hall. You can't live on what they pay. - Guy Courchesne I'm sure in some parts of Mexico, Harmon Hall schools pay on the low end of the scale compared to other schools. However, here in Merida, Harmon Hall's hourly wage is about average for language schools. Most local language schools in this city currently pay between 40 and 80 pesos per hour. Local HH schools were paying 55-60 pesos per hour the last I heard. City government EFL teaching jobs are currently paying 40 pesos per hour. One of the large private schools is paying its foreign language teachers less than 40 pesos per hour. The state university pays less than 60 pesos per hour, but it provides lots of benefits that other local schools don't have (health insurance, paid holidays, vales, a decent aguinaldo, etc.) and it has nearly zero turn-over of EFL teachers. I might add, too, that the local Harmon Halls (2 schools) are among the very few schools in this city willing to employ untrained, inexperienced, short-term, foreign teachers. I'm not promoting HH schools and have no connection with them. However, for certain people wanting the experience of teaching and living in Mexico, I wouldn't rule out Harmon Hall as a possibility. Best wishes, B.R. de B. Back to top dan allanJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 38 Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:01 am Post subject: MEXICO WITHOUT A DEGREE You can find work in DF w/o a degree. It also has the best pay. If I can provide you or anyone else with some general useful info, email me and request it. I have 4 years here. I also would't bother with HH in DF. Outside, it may be viable. DAN. Back to top Guy CourchesneJoined: 10 Mar 2003Posts: 9646Location: Guadalajara Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 8:55 pm Post subject: Harmon Hall Y'know, I've discovered that here in Acapulco, like Yucatan, HH is on the higher end of the pay scale. Strange how it works. It's still low by DF standards, but that's what they all hate Chilangoes for right? Back to top Ben Round de BlocJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1946 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 12:52 am Post subject: Quote: It's still low by DF standards, but that's what they all hate Chilangoes for right? - Guy Courchesne I suspect that's just one of many reasons! 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Wi-Fi: It Just Keeps Growing
February 12, 2003
As analysts look at the year 2002, they reveal that most wireless LAN products vendors had continued success as the market for 802.11 products grew.
Changes in the way WLANs are thought of and deployed in businesses might make this year the best yet for Wi-FI, but there's little denying when you look at the numbers for the year 2002 that it was the best wireless LANs have seen yet.
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In-Stat senior analyst Gemma Paulo, says that while the year 2002 saw the shipment of many new technologies for WLANs -- including 802.11a products, dual-mode products, and the first draft-only 802.11g products -- the lower-end, SOHO vendors "shipped loads of 802.11b products, both to small business and homes, as well as into small departments and offices of larger businesses."
She calls the volumes shipped by vendors like Linksys, D-Link, Buffalo Technology, and Netgear "staggering."
Overall, Phoenix, AZ-based Synergy Research Group's Fourth Quarter 2002 Wireless LAN Equipment market shares report concurs. According to Synergy's final numbers (both In-Stat and Synergy gather data via surveys done every quarter with WLAN equipment manufacturers), overall vendors shipped over 15.8 million Wi-Fi devices in 2002, to the tune of $1.8 billion. That's up from $1.4 billion in 2001, and $577 million in 200.Specific companies doing well in enterprise product sales include the every present Cisco Systems
with 31.5%, followed by Symbol Technologies (13.8%), and Proxim Corporation (8.9%). All increased their revenue market share from the previous year by a minimum of 1.8%
The biggest loss in revenue market share went to Agere Systems, which flew from its high of 24.2% of the market in Q1 '02 to 3.5% in Q4 -- no surprise since they sold off their ORiNOCO equipment business to Proxim. Proxim captured 11.3% of the revenue market share for Q4, and a total of 8.9% for the whole year (up from 5.4% in 2001).
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SOHOand small business Wi-Fi products accounted for 55% of the total market. In the revenue market share for SOHOproducts, Linksys, Buffalo Technologies, and D-Link continue to dominate. D-Link in particular had a large jump of 5% from Q3 to Q4 in 2002, which was reflected in its overall year market share of 16% (up from 11.6% in 2001). Netgear also did extremely well in 2002, jumping to 13% of the market, up from 5.9% in 2001.
D-Link and Netgear's gains were Buffalo's loss, as its 18.1% of the 2002 market was a drop from the 23.7% it commanded in 2001 -- so much for getting the draft-standard 802.11g products out early. Other
SOHOmarket share losses went to Agere (again, because of selling its product division), Intel and Proxim (each spent the year concentrating on chipsets and business Wi-Fi), and SMC Networks.
In the world of Voice over WLAN phones, where Spectralinkand Symbol compete alone, Spectralink retains the lead with 68.8% of the revenue market share for the year. They even sold 32.7% more units than in 2001, but still took a 5% loss in overall revenue from 2001 to 2002. Phones must be getting cheaper along with everything else.
As for 2003, Paulo says the industry is likely looking at "a change in how large scale enterprise's structure their access point layout." The day of the access point that has all the smarts on board may be numbered as companies like Symbol and Aruba Networks move toward managed, "dumb or light access points being controlled by wireless switches." Just what defines a wireless switch is in question too by companies like Vivato, which will be shipping its own "wireless switch" which used a phased array antenna to provide wireless coverage to a whole building with a single product.
"[It] should be a real change in the market this year," says Paulo. "For the length of time 11b has been out, people have been working on access points the way the are, to get them to perform well, just getting the radio good enough...now they're looking at new ways to put them in the enterprise."


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Comparing Computer Bytes Day 2 of 2
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Objective: Students will be able to applying operations with numbers written in scientific notation to real world situations that are relative to their everyday lives.
Big Idea: Use technology to hook students and apply operations in scientific notation to educate them about computer history.
Bellringer - Lesson Hook
The bulk of the class period today needs to be focused on completing the activity and discussing the answers, however you chose to allow students to work through the questions. Therefore, your opening hook is short. I have linked three optional videos from Youtube that are all short, about two minutes long, and show retro technology. I suggest opening with these so students are interested in the activity and again get a sense of the history of computers and cell phones. Technology changes fast!
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Complete the remainder of the questions and student lead presentations of solutions with time for questions and clarification. How you complete the activity really depends on how you started the work yesterday. As a reminder, here are the various suggestions I made for working through the activity, depending on the needs of your students.
- Strategy One: Mission Impossible – If you have some groups, about 50% or so, who are successfully working through the problems then you have experts in the room who can act as resources for the struggling groups. I would suggest a Mission Impossible spying session to help struggling groups gather ideas for beginning work. After the spying session, allow groups time to debrief and begin working again as you are moving about the room assessing student progress.
- If more than 50% of your students are struggling to begin then after a few minutes of work stop the class and strategically using Scripting to create a map of ideas to help struggling students. Ask student groups for suggestions of useful ideas to begin working the first problem. Clarify for everyone that you are not looking for a full description of how to work the problem. You simply want to script a variety of ideas for getting started on the problem. Then allow groups time to choose an idea and begin working again. After a time, pull students back together and script more student ideas and work under each of the scripted ideas for getting started. So if one group chose a certain method for beginning then script how they used that idea to work further on the problem. You can stop here and then allow more time to complete the problem if you feel the need to break up the problem one more time. Then allow students to work through a section of problems, usually three or four at a time, and pull students together for a student lead mini-wrap up. Always circulate to assess students and provide feedback as students work.
- If students are working through the questions and only a few groups are struggling, much less than 50% of the room, then allow groups to work as you focus your time and attention on providing feedback to groups who need additional support to move forward and be productive. You could allow this entire class period as a work day and then present answers to the problems on the follow day, but I only recommend this option if almost all your groups are really understanding and you know they are working correctly. Your second option is to again chunk the problems into smaller groups of work so students are working and then coming together for a mini-wrap up of the work they have completed so far. For example, allowing students to work questions one through four and then holding a mini wrap up session just to ensure students are working correctly before they complete the activity and it breaks up the class period so students are more focused. Changing activities gives students something new to focus on and prolongs their attention span. If you spend the entire class period on the second day reviewing answers, it needs to be interactive or else you will lose many to short attention spans.
Activating students as owners of their own learning
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Cooperative Grouping Explained
Providing feedback that moves learning forward
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Wrapping Up the Lesson
Close the activity by preparing students for the following day's work. Tell students they are about to further this work with scientific notation by beginning a formative assessment lesson. Students will be re-grouped tomorrow so be ready to sit with new partners. The class will begin a fun card match activity to further guide their thinking about applying scientific notation. Make sure the student card sets on pages S-2, S-3, and S-4 are copied and cut before tomorrow as I discussed in the lesson plan yesterday.


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NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Cabinet accepted most of the recommendations of a commission for toughening laws for crimes against women, including increasing the penalty for rape.
The panel was set up in response to the fatal gang rape in December of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi. The Cabinet recommended Friday that the president issue an ordinance to turn the proposals into law, Law Minister Ashwini Kumar said.
The commission recommended an increase in the penalty for rape to 20 years and suggested life terms for gang rape.
Kumar did not give details. However, the Press Trust of India news agency said the Cabinet went beyond the panel's recommendations by providing for death sentences in cases where a rape leads to death of the victim or leaves her in a "persistent vegetative state."
The Cabinet also recommended including crimes like stalking, cyber stalking and voyeurism and imposing stiff punishments for such crimes.
"We believe that this is a progressive piece of legislation and is consistent with felt sensitivities of the nation in the aftermath of an outrageous gang-rape in New Delhi," Kumar said.
Police say the young woman and a male friend were attacked after boarding the bus on Dec. 16. The attackers beat the man and raped the woman, inflicting massive internal injuries with a metal bar, police said. The victims were dumped on the roadside, and the woman died two weeks later in a Singapore hospital.
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Caps locker: HEY PAL, YOUR MOTHER SUCKED MY BALS YESTEERDAY, IT IS GREAT SUCKER, YOUR MOTHER SHE IS.
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An electric compact hatchback, the 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV is powered by a 49 kw AC synchronous motor and 16 kWh lithium-ion, 330V, battery. Eco friendly, the RWD i-MiEV is capable of 62 miles per charge and offers seating for four. Charging options consist of a standard home outlet (22.5 hours) or an optional 240V charging dock (7 hours). A quick charge option is available that charges to 80% in 30 minutes. Features include 15-inch wheels, air conditioning, HDD navigation system, 360 Watt audio system, steering wheel mounted controls, and rearview camera. Safety is comprised of advanced airbags, active stability control (ASC), traction control logic (TCL), tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), electronic brake force distribution (EBD), anti-lock braking (ABS), and brake assist (BA). The i-MiEV is backed by a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty.


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Teens and marijuana: 'I'd go to school stoned and not learn anything'
A new study shows a significant drop in IQ for long-term users who smoked cannabis from adolescence into adulthood. Here, some young adults discuss their experiences with the drug.'I FIRST STARTED smoking cannabis when I was 12," says Stephen, a 26-year-old from Ballymun, in north Dublin. "It took me away from the life that I was in. I came from a big family and had an awful lot of angry people around me and a lot of drink and drugs. I used to pray to God to take me out and put me in another family. Cannabis took me away for a few hours.
"Two or three of us would chip in and grab a £10 deal. You could go to the field and have a few joints and not listen to your ma and da. We'd sit in the fields with the horses, two stolen cars and a lump of hash. We'd sit in the cars, smoke the hash and then rally the cars around the fields."
Soon Stephen was stealing to fund his cannabis habit and entered a cycle of paranoia, depression and anxiety attacks from which he says he has only recently emerged. He has completed the cannabis programme run by Ballymun Youth Action Group. ("We set it up in response to a demand," says a community addiction worker, Karl O'Brien.) He has signed up to a Fetac course and is reconnecting with his two young sons (whose names are tattooed on his arm). He says he's seeing life clearly for the first time in a decade.
Attitudes to cannabis have softened. It is often seen as less harmful than even legal drugs such as alcohol. In more recent years, however, a succession of studies have noted adverse effects on the mental and cognitive health of some long-term users, particularly those who used in their teenage years.
A newly published study of cannabis users in New Zealand has shown that regular users who smoked from their teenage years suffered an irreversible drop in IQ. (Those who smoked only in adulthood suffered an IQ drop, too, but this seems to be reversible over time after abstaining from the drug.)
Furthermore, the type of cannabis available has become more potent: cannabis resin has been supplanted by grass or skunk.
"I did enjoy it [cannabis] a lot at the start," says Stephen. "I enjoyed the giggles and the laughing, but after three or four years that feeling stopped. I was paranoid. That was made worse because I was hiding from everybody, because I owed them money. I felt I couldn't go outside the door. I couldn't go to some of my own friends' funerals because I owed money. And I felt like I was dead if I didn't have [cannabis]. I didn't want to live if I didn't have it. I'd rob anything. I know it's not heroin, but I know people spending four times as much on weed as heroin. And I know people being physically battered over money for weed."
Tony, a young-looking 21-year-old who is still involved with the programme, is a bit more sceptical of its danger. "I don't think it's that harmful really," he says. "I saw somewhere that more people die every year from eating peanuts than smoking cannabis. I suppose it could kill you if you ran up a debt and someone shot you over it. That could happen."
Nonetheless he wants to cut down on his consumption to focus on earning more money for his baby girl. "I'm going to do the Leaving Cert," he says. "I need to earn more money.
"Weed does make you real stupid and dopey," he says. "I'd go to school stoned and you wouldn't learn anything. When I got older I used to sit in the house and smoke it. Put on a funny film, have a few joints, get the munchies and have a few packets of crisps. My ma doesn't like me smoking it, but she can't really stop me. Maybe it'd be different if I was smoking gear."
Dr Bobby Smyth, a Trinity College Dublin academic who works with the HSE's youth drug and alcohol service in Tallaght, says just because cannabis seems less harmful than other drugs, this does not mean it's harmless. Most youth workers contacted for this article say the numbers accessing their services with cannabis-specific issues has increased (this despite a recent NUI Galway study suggesting fewer under-18s are smoking the drug overall).
"It's the biggest single drug that presents to us, and it's become more dominant as the biggest substance in the past year or two," says Smyth. "There are multiple factors. Drugs are very culturally influenced. They go in and out of fashion, and at the moment cannabis is quite fashionable. It's very available and the quality is good.
"We're seeing teenagers spending €50 a day on cannabis. That's about €1,400 a month. The amount of money people are spending on cannabis now is similar to what people would spend on a heroin habit. They're getting the drug on ticket, and eventually the dealer comes knocking at their parents' door looking for the money. That's usually when they're referred to us."
Part of the problem is cannabis has changed. The market is now dominated by strains of locally produced grass that have, over the years, been modified to contain higher levels of the psychoactive chemical tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. "This makes it much more powerful and pleasurable," says Smyth. "But it also increases the risk of doing damage."
Twenty-year-olds Siobhan and Trevor are sitting in a counselling room at Crinan Youth Project, based at the old Magdalen laundry on Sean McDermott Street. Both of them feel as if they've been clean "for ages" (four months and six weeks respectively). They started smoking hash young, Siobhan at 12, Trevor at 16, but couldn't go back to it, they said, once they'd experienced stronger weed.
For a long time each of them thought that the paranoia and anxiety they felt were rational responses to reality and had nothing to do with the drug. Trevor maintains that each bag of weed "should come with a warning like on a packet of cigarettes, because it f***s up your head. Each bag should have a picture of a guy looking like this . . ." He does an exaggerated impression of an anguished man holding his head in his hands.
"At the start you'd get a real buzz off it," says Siobhan. "But then it's like 10 personalities in a bag. Your mood can change very quickly. I'd be walking to the shops terrified, because I'd be convinced someone was following me and was about to punch me in the face."
Siobhan is looking for work and Trevor is planning to resit the Leaving Cert. "I couldn't have done that when I was smoking," he says. "I wouldn't have got out of bed for it."
The interviewees in this article are primarily heavy users for whom the drug has become problematic, but this is not the whole story.
Jane, a 21-year-old from Donegal, smokes marijuana three or four times a week. She first smoked when she was 14, but she does not feel that the drug adversely affects her.
"It's become an acceptable drug," she says. "I don't think families even see it as a drug any more, not like something like cocaine.
"I know a few people who need to smoke a joint in order to sleep and others whose whole lives revolve around it, but I think most can take it or leave it. It doesn't make me paranoid. I go without it for long periods of time, and I can't see myself smoking it forever."
For a known minority, however, cannabis curbs motivation, impairs cognition and damages mental health. Drug programmes such as those run by Crinan Youth Project and Ballymun Youth Action group do essential work despite cutbacks.
"I did other drugs – acid, ecstasy, cocaine – but I could always knock them on the head," says Stephen. "The one I could never get rid of was cannabis. It was the pot of gold in my day. I couldn't imagine life without it. Now that I've stopped it's a bit like waking up from a weird dream. I actually get a buzz from watching the telly or playing snooker or going to the cinema. I don't need it any more."
Some names have been changed
Does cannabis turn you into a dope?
How has cannabis changed in recent years? "The hash that was around when I was a teenager was a very different beast to the grass being smoked now," says Dr Bobby Smyth of Trinity College Dublin.
"It's like comparing a shandy to a bottle of tequila. Studies in Britain show that those who smoked skunk with the higher levels of THC are more likely to suffer psychotic symptoms than those who smoked the milder strain."
The New Zealand study reported in the media this week shows an eight-point drop in IQ for long-term users who smoked cannabis from adolescence into adulthood. This worries Smyth.
"That study involves people who were 38 the last time they were interviewed, so it must relate to people who weren't smoking the modern cannabis. If the current cohort of teenagers are smoking the more potent cannabis, one would expect that the effect would be even more potent for them."
The study found adults who quit the drug did not suffer impaired IQ, but teenagers suffered a permanent effect. What about those who smoked cannabis heavily as teenagers and have perfectly normal lives now? "People will vary in terms of the extent to which it affects them. Some cannabis smokers will get away with it. They'll smoke their brain off as teenagers and there won't be much of an impact. But for others there'll be a more profound impact.
"We just don't know who's in danger of developing these cognitive problems or psychotic-type problems. It's a roll of the dice. But the idea that you could pour any chemical into your brain week after week and year after year and that your brain isn't going to be changed by that is delusional."


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Kate Bosworth & Gerard Butler: 'Movie 43' Trailer!
Check out Kate Bosworth and Gerard Butler in this NSFW trailer for their upcoming flick Movie 43!
Also featured in the trailer are Chloe Moretz, Emma Stone, Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Kate Winslet, Elizabeth Banks, Hugh Jackman, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Josh Duhamel, Christopher Mintz-Pleasse, Johnny Knoxville, Kieran Culkin, Terrence Howard and Richard Gere.
The movie also features Kristen Bell, Leslie Bibb, Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Seann William Scott, and more!
Check out the trailer below, and look out for the film on January 25!


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New apps need lovin' too, right? Every day there are thousands of additions to the Google Play Store, but many go unnoticed and never receive the attention they deserve. We've shown in the past that this community can discover great apps and launch them to new heights. Our weekly column Fresh Meat highlights new apps with less than 100,000 installs. Browse our new Android app picks below and let us know which ones you enjoy.
Loopr Beta
Description: Loopr is a task switcher, pretty much like the recent apps menu on your android system, but with much quicker access and a few more options.
Description: Jelly is a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks. It's also people helping each other–something that's both meaningful and fun.
Description: Quit smoking and improve the quality of your life with QuitControl smoking cessation app. The app provides realtime statistics of your progression: Passed cigarettes, saved money and time, prolonged life and health indicators with time counters so you see where you're at.
Description: AppDeals is great new way to find the best app deals and sales for apps, games and wallpapers on Google Play.
Engadget Mini
Description: Engadget Mini is a real-time stream of everything important, interesting and fun in the world of consumer technology, with instant updates on the latest product news and reviews, as well as a mix of the best photos, videos and posts from across the social web.
CM (Cleanmaster) Security
Description: Blazing fast, lightweight and ultra-secure, CM (Cleanmaster) Security is a FREE mobile security app developed by Clean Master – the world's most trusted Android optimizer (over 100,000,000 downloads worldwide and 4.7 top ratings on Google Play).
Super Simple Sleep Timer
Description: Silence any music or audio app after a set period of time. Perfect for listening to any music, audiobook or podcast app before going to sleep.
Description: Another option for a Google Reader replacement. Anonymous Poll creation. Anonymous Voting. Bookmarking news articles. News photos. Search Tags. Social Awareness.
Shifu: To Do & Task Manager
Description: Shifu tracks your context and when it recognizes that you have a spare moment, it estimates the free time you have and suggests a relevant daily task.
Description: Picklor is an application for you to collect and compare colors around you. Choose your desired color from wherever you want, save it and search for the matching color anywhere else, anytime using this application.


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This August's $1 billion question in Washington continues to be whether the government is heading for a shutdown. The conundrum embroils the two parties in internecine battles, pits spending priorities against political tactics and leaves the affected federal workforce to largely watch from the sidelines.
Interviews with Washington insiders show all agree the prospects for a shutdown are real. Congress left town for its August recess, leaving only nine legislative days in the session before the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. No appropriations bills have reached President Obama's desk—the House has voted only on five, the Senate only on one.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has sworn off talk of a "grand bargain" to resolve the fiscal stalemate, and Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, while conducting an outreach blitz on Capitol Hill, has reported no word of progress on a concrete budget deal.
What is different this go-round, observers agree, is that experienced dealmaker Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appears too preoccupied with a reelection challenge (both in his party's primary from the right and in the general election) to climb to a summit with Democrats. Also, the ongoing disputes over taxes, appropriations and entitlements have been overshadowed in recent weeks by a rump group of Republicans who see this fall as their "last chance" to repeal Obama's signature achievement, the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
"In September, Congress will have the opportunity to defund Obamacare -- the disastrous health care law, which is killing jobs and hurting the health care system," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in an Aug. 5 radio broadcast aimed at mobilizing a "grass-roots army" to take advantage of the fall budget climax. "The only way we can win this debate is if the American people rise up and demand it," said Cruz, who has joined with Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, and a host of Tea Party and other rightist groups such as the Club for Growth and Freedom Works.
"The way things stand right now, it's very likely we will have a government shutdown," said Dan Holler, communications director for Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation. "We're seeing a growing number of House Republicans since they've been back home saying there's a need to use the year-end spending bill to stop implementation of Obamacare. Some want to defund it, others want delay, but the consensus is there has to be action."
But the coming clash, Holler cautions, is not all the Republicans' making. "Democrats aren't happy with the spending levels and want more" than is called for in the 2011 Budget Control Act, he said.
Yet, many Republicans consider a shutdown over Obamacare political suicide. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- the GOP presidential standard-bearer just nine months ago -- on Aug. 6 warned the crowd at a New Hampshire Republican donor event against the strategy. "I badly want Obamacare to go away, and stripping it of funds has appeal," he said, according to the Associated Press. "But we need to exercise great care about any talk of shutting down government. What would come next when soldiers aren't paid, when seniors fear for their Medicare and Social Security, and when the FBI is off duty?"
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in late July released results of a Congressional Research Service legal study he requested concluding that "if the government were shut down, funding for Obamacare would still continue. In other words, shutting down the federal government does not shut down Obamacare."
Several Republican governors are equally wary. "I have made the case that Obamacare is not good for the economy," Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told the National Governors Association last weekend. "But I have some real concerns about potentially doing something that would have a negative impact on the economy just for the short term -- I think there are other ways to pursue this," he said, according to The New York Times.
"The House Republican leadership wants to avoid a shutdown," said Michael Barone, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and columnist for the Washington Examiner. He noted that some conservative commentators have divided the Republicans into the "suicide caucus" and the "surrender caucus." Sen. Cruz, he said, feels the urgency because he believes once the law's subsidies kick in, "no one will ever get rid of it," which may or may not be true.
"I don't think a shutdown will happen," said Grover Norquist, president of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform. "I'm a strong supporter of an emerging consensus that it is reasonable to ask for a year's delay" in Obamacare, a position that many Democrats, such as Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, favor.
"I can see the president signing a bill that delays it because he's already delayed the law's mandates for larger businesses," Norquist said. "For Republicans, a delay would be an implicit statement that the law doesn't work, and for Democrats -- do they really want to go into the 2014 elections with Obamacare in place?" The president will never sign a bill defunding health reform, Norquist said, so "it's a mistake for Republicans to make it a nonnegotiable demand and try to humiliate Obama by asking him to give up the crown jewels and admit he's been wrong."
Longtime Congress-watcher Norman Ornstein, also of AEI, was less optimistic about avoiding a shutdown. "I don't see a grand bargain, though one would be nice," he said in an interview. "Who's going to do the bargain? Mitch McConnell is not in any way shape or form going to play the role he did in [last December's] fiscal cliff talks, and there's nobody in the House capable of doing anything." Many Republicans who were in Congress during the 1994-1995 government shutdown -- Coburn and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., for instance -- "have all called the shutdown idea insanity," Ornstein noted, "but others [lack] the basic level of rationality or sanity" to head it off.
The only hope in Ornstein's view is "Obi-Wan McCain," or Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who might find 12 or 20 Republicans in the Senate to join Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in a "short-term extension" of a continuing resolution to keep the funding going. "If the Senate puts enough pressure on the House, maybe Boehner takes the leap and it limps through with mostly Democrats," Ornstein said. "But as for what is the most likely outcome, you lose me."
A short-term extension of an omnibus spending bill, perhaps two to three months, is the likely outcome predicted by the Bipartisan Policy Center, according to longtime Senate Republican budget aide Steve Bell.
"But people who think this is easy to do underestimate the extreme splits in both parties and both chambers," he said, splits that worsen, he noted, every time a so-called "gang of eight" tries to reach a deal out of view of the rank and file members.
Such an extension, Bell said, would give lawmakers time to also complete a deal on extending unemployment insurance and food stamps, both programs that expire Oct. 1.
The August recess will not, Bell added, bring much progress because during town halls and meetings with constituents in their home districts, lawmakers "simply appeal to their base voters, who are the ones who show up to vote in a nonpresidential year."
Bell also confessed that he doesn't "really know how it's going to turn out. But neither do they."
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High Point, NC> The Barton College women's basketball team has been voted the Conference Carolinas coaches preseason poll favorite for the upcoming 2008-09 season. Barton has played in three of the last five NCAA D-II tournaments. Head coach Wendee Saintsing, in her 20th season, returns three starters in Sara Fleming, Esty Flores, and Kendra Thomas and five others from a team that was 19-8 overall and 16-4 in league play to finish as the regular-season runner-up in Conference Carolinas.
Last season, Flores was a first-team, all-league choice, Thomas made second team and Fleming was honorable mention, so Coach Saintsing has a solid nucleus to build upon. Five guards and two posts have been added to the roster. Freshmen Jannetta Robinson, Faith Hunter and Vente Cobb should bring exciting play to the guard position for the Lady Bulldogs. Inside, junior Shamita Alston was the leading rebounding in NJCAA D-II basketball last season while Kelsey Sill, a sophomore transfer from Brevard, should add more depth at the post position. That group, along with the rest of the newcomers and returnees will hopefully make Barton a contender for Conference Carolinas supremacy...and beyond.
Belmont Abbey College comes-in tied in the second spot in the preseason coaches' poll. The Abbey women's basketball team is coming off of its most successful season since 2004-05, posting a 19-10 overall record and a 13-7 mark in league play. The Crusaders finished fourth in the conference standings and reached the semifinal round of the conference tournament after it was picked to finish seventh in last year's preseason poll. The Abbey returns nine players from last year's team and welcomes five highly-regarded newcomers.
Mount Olive College was also tied for the second place spot in the preseason poll. The Trojans are coming off the best season in school history following their first-ever Conference Carolinas tournament championship and first NCAA Tournament appearance. The Trojans return four full- or part-time starters from last year's squad, which posted a 21-11 overall and 15-5 league record.
In the frontcourt, Mount Olive brings back junior and two-time All-Conference selection Helen Moore, along with 6-0 senior forward Alisa Jones. The backcourt is anchored by seniors Tomeka Prichard and Brittney Robich, who rank first and second in school history, respectively, in career three-point shooting. The Trojans also look forward to the return of guard Meaghan Vanderhorst, who missed most of the last two seasons with a knee injury.
Anderson University finished fourth in the poll and will be under new leadership with head coach Jim Brunelli inheriting a team that was 28-4 overall and the regular season league champions with a 19-1 record in Conference Carolinas play last season
Coach Brunelli's will have his first Anderson team built around seniors Keana Boyd and Genia Holbrook. Boyd, a first-team All-Conference Carolinas pick, led the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game. Holbrook is a rugged inside player who averaged 6.6 rebounds per game last season.
Rounding out the lady's poll 5-10 was: Queens, Limestone, Pfeiffer, Lees-McRae, Coker, Converse, St. Andrews, and Erskine respectively.
Women's Basketball Preseason Poll (# of First place votes in parenthesis)
(7) 116
(2) 103
(1) 103
Anderson University
(2) 90
Queens University of Charlotte
Limestone College
Pfeiffer University
Lees-McRae College
Converse College
St. Andrews
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Consumer Choice and the Schools
Consumer Choice and the Schools (RealAudio)
Did you know that one reason we constantly test our school children is because of a lack of school choice?
Think about it: If your grocery store were doing a poor job, you wouldn't need to test its employees or produce to find out. The store would simply lose customers. We know which businesses do a good job because we have a choice and can observe consumer behavior.
This process completely breaks down for education. If schools are doing a poor job, parents have to pay twice to switch to a better provideronce in private tuition and again in taxes for the government schools, even though they're no longer using them.
This is like paying our regular bill at one store so we can pay a second bill at a better store. Most people would be forced to stay at the first store, but they'd always wonder if they were getting their money's worth. This is one reason why we test our school children till they're cross-eyed: We can't tell from consumer behavior whether our schools are actually teaching them anything.
School choice would change that. Maybe that's why the education establishment is so scared of it.


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Skip to comments.On courts' role, Obama not clueless, just pandering
Posted on 04/08/2012 1:50:35 PM PDT by Mark Landsbaum
President Barack Obama, stung by indications the Supreme Court may overturn his landmark health care law, reacted last week unlike a constitutional scholar, which he was at the University of Chicago, and more like a politician seeking reelection, which he is. The president pronounced: "I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress." Mr. Obama appeared to be warning the high court against overturning his signature legislative achievement, by invalidating an act of Congress. But even his defenders were quick to concede . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Disagree...TRULY CLUELESS!!
I see him in a more ominous way.
I think he was just testing the water to see how much he can get away with following this path. If he is stopped here he will try another way.
The irony I find in his statements, and there are many, is...
If true, his administration is petitioning the court to overturn DOMA.
If true, go figure.
Obama isn't clueless. He is an ACORN/Marxist bullhorn street corner hustler who loves to stir up the crowds with demagoguery, lies and inciting bad behavior. To that end, he knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
I wish he would just go back to Chicago bathhouses and his prior lifestyle with Trent Lott and Bill Frist. He will agitate, stir the pot, fan the flames of race hatred, gender hated, wealth hatred, and offer no viable solutions to any problems.
You know, Nicky Lenin and Bennie Mussolini,
"...law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress"
And he said that with a straight face.
Clueless AND CLASSLESS!
Disagree...TRULY CLUELESS!!
Can't both be true?
Obama was never a "constitutional scholar". If anything, he used what little legal training he was able to absorb to further the craft of "jailhouse lawyer" in trying to find loopholes he could utilize in OVERTURNING the intent of the letter of the Constitution.
Obama wouild NEVER turn to the coterie that follows him and ask for an explanation of some phrase or clause that seemed troublesome - he would use his God-voice and state the words were just wrong.
A lot like Benito Mussolini, who was greatly admired back in the early days of the New Deal under FDR. There was a guy who could get the railroads to run on time.
Obama's first dealing with a foreign country after inaguration was to completely ignore Honduras' constitution when the president of Honduras wanted to establish a permanent presidency in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez. Noone should be surprised when he ignores ours.
I had forgotten Zelala.
Please list his publications, invited lectures, and grants which would support the notion that he was a "constitutional scholar".
He was, of course, nothing of the sort.
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Author Notes: Whenever I cooked beets I felt like I needed to do something with the greens. They are always so beautiful and it seemed a shame to waste them so I did some tests and found my favorite way to eat them. - Marisa Grace Desmond —Marissa Grace
Food52 Review: This may be the most thoughtful sauteed greens recipe we've ever encountered. Beet greens (which we think deserve more attention in the kitchen) are usually wilted in hot olive oil with a little garlic, and they're delicious this way, but Marissa Grace Desmond plotted out ways to amplify the greens' sweetness while tempering it with chilies. She has you brown garlic with shallot and red pepper flakes, then layer in sugar, black pepper and salt, before adding the greens and wilting them. Just before serving you splash the beet greens with sherry vinegar, which electrifies the whole dish. The key here is the sugar, which caramelizes with the garlic and tightens up the sauce, so by the time the greens are cooked (and beet greens should really be cooked), it wraps the greens in a cloak of sweet and fiery sauce. (By the way, we doubled the amounts here so it would serve 3 people; if you do this, add vinegar to taste.) - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 2
bunch beet greens
teaspoons chopped garlic
teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
teaspoon red pepper flakes
teaspoons sugar
teaspoon olive oil
shallot, chopped
cup water
teaspoon salt
teaspoons sherry vinegar
- Wash and trim your beet greens. If the stems are very thick it is worth trimming them back a bit.
- On medium heat, saute the garlic, shallot and red pepper flake in the olive oil until slightly browned. Add black pepper, sugar and salt.
- Place the beet greens into the pan, pour the water on and immediately cover. Do not remove the lid for a few minutes to allow the greens to wilt. Once they have cooked down, remove the lid and stir all of the ingredients together. Cook for a few more minutes allowing the water to evaporate.
- Just before removing pour the vinegar over the greens. Remove, serve and enjoy!
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One Direction caused chaos in New York ahead of their live TV appearance on Tuesday (13Nov12) as their fans' unofficial sidewalk campsite sparked complaints from local businesses.
Hundreds of young devotees lined up on the streets close to Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan to grab a spot to watch the pop stars' performance on the Today show, with many arriving as early as last Thursday (08Nov12) to secure their place.
The campsite was strewn with tents and clogged sidewalks for almost a fifth of a mile through Midtown Manhattan, and the chaos sparked numerous complaints from local businesses, while there were also fears the line was blocking bus lanes and affecting traffic.
Officials at NBC, the network behind the Today show, helped ease the chaos by handing out wristbands to the first 600 fans on Monday (12Nov12) and ordering them to vacate the streets until 2am on Tuesday morning, according to the New York Post.


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Chris Brown considers the night he brutalized his girlfriend Rihanna "the biggest mistake" of his life.
Acknowledging his actions that left Rihanna's face bloodied and bruised the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards, the 23-year-old opened up about the couple's rekindled romance.
"Sometimes you row, you fight, with the one you love and things get said, stuff spirals," he told the Mirror at Elton John's Academy Awards party on Sunday. "That night was the deepest regret of my life, the biggest mistake. But she loves me — what can I say? I'm forgiven ... but, yes, I worked hard for it."
Aside from the apology, the Ministry was more shocked by the fact that Brown used the very British term "row" to describe the fight — but when contacted by The Times, a Brown rep verified the comments.


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